Today our little roo (4 months old) had a patch of feathers on the side of his neck that looked like they had dried in blood on them. I picked him up and looked closer and saw this big pink bump on the side of his neck, about the size of a nickel and standing out.
At the base of is were some...
What I need: A small picket fence run that the chicks can access at will when we're not home to free range them.
What I have so far:
I put together 4 sections of dog ear picket fence, 24 inches high, 8 foot in length. (Goodness does it take time to do! First cut everything, let the lumber dry...
And I got chickens as a bonus.
I played around in SketchUp drawing chicken coops before I even decided to GET chickens, a little backwards I guess. After a few modifications, like adjusting the measurements to the amount of scrap we had, and again when I got a couple of free windows from a...
I have 6 chicks, all about 1 month old today. 5 are roughly the same size, and at the same stage of feather development and one is a little behind, it might be a couple of days younger, but not much more than that.
The little one and one of the bigger ones are straight run barred rocks. I picked...